Small Island (2004) - Andrea Levy

Written by Andrea Levy
Read by Andrea Levy
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Unabridged

Small Island
By: Andrea Levy
Narrated by: Andrea Levy
Release date
07-05-2015
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length
17 hrs and 24 mins
Publisher
Headline Digital
Categories
Literature & Fiction

Small Island by best-selling author Andrea Levy won the Orange Prize for Fiction, as well as many other awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Whitbread. Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Naomie Harris, its enduring appeal will captivate fans of Maya Angelou and Zadie Smith.It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh’s neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn’t know when her husband will return, or if he will come back at all. What else can she do?Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently. It’s desperation that makes him remember a wartime friendship with Queenie and knock at her door.Gilbert’s wife Hortense, too, had longed to leave Jamaica and start a better life in England. But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby, decrepit, and far from the golden city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was….©2004 Andrea Levy (P)2015 Headline Publishing Group Ltd